Worth the Wait

And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him...then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." I Sam 28:6-7

When God doesn't answer, wait. Wait, and if necessary, get right with him. But by all means, do not go off looking for answers on your own. In Chapter 28, Saul seeks the counsel of a medium when he doesn't get an answer from God on how to fight the Philistines. The chapter mentions that he had earlier cast "the mediums and spiritists out of the land" (v. 3). Yet in desperation, he turns to a medium, and even promises her safety in spite of the Levitical laws that required stoning such a person (Lev. 20:27). He gets an answer in v.19, but it's not the one he wanted: he would die in battle the next day.

I don't struggle with consulting mediums for battle plans, but there are plenty of applications for waiting on the Lord in my life. It can be painful to sit and wait for the Lord to lead. However, it sure beats the misery of running away on my own and running head-first into His wrath.